American Political Thought from Political Philosophy

American Political Thought from Political Philosophy? What recurring themes do we see in American Political Thought.  How  the Federalists and Anti-Federalists differ in their views on government? Identify and explain 2 reasons for independence as presented in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.

For what reasons does Thoreau refuse to pay a poll tax in Civil Disobedience? Thinking back to a Christian at his Calling, what obligations does Cotton Mather think man has? In Slave’s Petition to the Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage (1774), what arguments do the authors make for emancipation? Identify four reasons for independence as presented in the Declaration of Independence?

Thinking back to the Correspondence on Women’s Rights (1776), why does Abigail Adams tell John Adams to “remember the ladies.” In a Correspondence on Slavery (1791), how does Benjamin Banneker challenge Thomas Jefferson on his position on Slavery? How does Jefferson describe the role of religion in the new republic in his Letter to a Committee of the Danbury Baptists?

How does the Marbury v. Madison decision influence our understanding of the role of the Judiciary?

According to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in what ways are women subordinated by men as outlined in the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848).? Thinking back to Ain’t I woman, how does Sojourner Truth make a case for women’s equality? What are the Reconstruction Amendments? What do they do? In Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876), how does Frederick Douglas make sense of Lincoln’s Legacy?